Teachers 'need more training' on classroom management

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11531261

Shop assistants are given more training on how to deal with angry customers than teachers are on how to deal with unruly pupils, educationalists warn.
Appearing before a committee of MPs, psychologists and unions said teacher training courses did not cover enough ground on classroom management.
Courses should also contain modules on child development, the MPs were told.

Well I could say that's was what was thrown away with the closure of Teacher Training colleges.In fact I do say it..

[Flyboy]

I agree. It was one the biggest disaster to befall education in the last quarter of the last century. There is much more than "classroom" management missing from teacher training. These days teachers have to be much more than...well...teachers. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with that, it is essential to have a wide range of skills (especially as some of them won't have jobs soon), in order to pass them on to their students, as well as having a more versatile career path. It certainly helps the more able ones to progress through to school management.

Some of the best teachers I have worked with, have been those who were trained before the nineteen eighties and those who had come from careers from outside of education. But to counter that, a few of the worse teachers I have worked with also come from the same categories.

The changes being made to our precious education system are going to be some of the widest and most significant we have ever seen and the danger is going to be that it will be too far the wrong way. The government need to understand that the highest quality of education is for everybody, not just for the privileged few.